In mathematics, birational geometry is a field of algebraic geometry in which the goal is to determine when two algebraic varieties are isomorphic outside lower-dimensional subsets. This amounts to studying mappings that are given by rational functions rather than polynomials; the map may fail to be defined where the rational functions have poles.Birational mapsRational maps
A rational map from one variety (understood to be irreducible) X to another variety Y, written as a dashed arrow X Y, is defined as a morphism from a nonempty open subset U \subset X to Y. By definition of the Zariski topology used in algebraic geometry, a nonempty open subset U is always dense in X, in fact the complement of a lower-dimensional subset. Concretely, a rational map can be written in coordinates using rational functions.Birational maps
A birational map from X
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